"Not one that satisfied me."
"Can you do any better here?"
"I can't tell yet," answered Dean, while an expression of genuine perplexity overspread his face. It was a question which he had often asked himself. "I think if I could come across some mining settlement I could work for myself or somebody else."
"Are you goin' to stay out all night? There ain't many hotels round here."
"I have had supper, and am going to spend the night at a cabin about a mile from here."
"You are!" exclaimed the hunter in a tone of profound astonishment. "How did you get in?"
"I asked a woman who lives there if she would let me stop over night, and she was kind enough to say yes."
"Then you have had your supper?"
"Yes."
"And are you goin' to sleep in the cabin?"